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Graveyard Shift

“Graveyard Shift” is track 12 on Rob Matare's Hip-Hop album Signed My Name, released October 7, 2026. Hip-hop with Zimbabwe in its blood: run the place, take your power back, and the stadium they can't erase.

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“Graveyard Shift” lyrics

Working the graveyard shift

Twelve o'clock, I'm up, the whole city sleeping
Warehouse lights on and the forklifts beeping
Mama left a plate in the microwave
I eat it in the truck on the drive, it's okay
Everybody partying, I'm stacking the pallets
Everybody posting, I'm balancing the ballots
Of the bills and the rent and the car note due
Graveyard shift, it's the only way through

Clock in
Midnight
Clock out
Sunrise

Working the graveyard shift
Ain't nobody up but me and this
Streetlights and the late-night grit
Working the graveyard shift

Graveyard (graveyard)
Shift
Graveyard

Now I got a crew and we moving product legal
Trucks on the highway, moving like an eagle
Started with a dolly and a hand-me-down vest
Now I run the dock and I'm better than the rest
Every sunrise, I'm heading back home
Every sunrise, I'm falling asleep alone
Blackout curtains and a fan on high
Graveyard shift, but I'm still alive

Clock in
Midnight
Clock out
Sunrise

Working the graveyard shift
Ain't nobody up but me and this
Streetlights and the late-night grit
Working the graveyard shift

Midnight
Clock in
Sunrise
Clock out
Midnight

Working the graveyard shift
Ain't nobody up but me and this
Streetlights and the late-night grit
Working the graveyard shift

Graveyard (graveyard)
Shift
Graveyard

Lyrics written by Rob Matare. Written by me • made with AI. Artist visuals are digitally created.

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